Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan

Purpose. To explore the context of incidence of and associated risk factors for pressure ulcers amongst the population of surgical patients. Methods. The initial study cohort was conducted with a total of 297 patients admitted to a teaching hospital for a surgical operation from November 14th to 27...

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Main Authors:	Fu Shaw, Ling, Chang, Pao-Chu, Lee, Jung-Fen, Kung, Huei-Yu, Tung, Tao-Hsin
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4099038/

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spelling	pubmed-40990382014-07-23 Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan Fu Shaw, Ling Chang, Pao-Chu Lee, Jung-Fen Kung, Huei-Yu Tung, Tao-Hsin Research Article Purpose. To explore the context of incidence of and associated risk factors for pressure ulcers amongst the population of surgical patients. Methods. The initial study cohort was conducted with a total of 297 patients admitted to a teaching hospital for a surgical operation from November 14th to 27th 2006 in Taipei, Taiwan. The Braden scale, pressure ulcers record sheet, and perioperative patient outcomes free from signs and symptoms of injury related to positioning and related nursing interventions and activities were collected. Results. The incidence of immediate and thirty-minute-later pressure ulcers is 9.8% (29/297) and 5.1% (15/297), respectively. Using logistic regression model, the statistically significantly associated risk factors related to immediate and thirty-minute-later pressure ulcers include operation age, type of anesthesia, type of operation position, type of surgery, admission Braden score, and number of nursing intervention after adjustment for confounding factors. Conclusion. Admission Braden score and number of nursing intervention are well-established protected factors for the development of pressure ulcers. Our study shows that older operation age, type of anesthesia, type of operation position, and type of surgery are also associated with the development of pressure ulcers. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4099038/ /pubmed/25057484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/416896 Text en Copyright © 2014 Ling Fu Shaw et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Fu Shaw, Ling Chang, Pao-Chu Lee, Jung-Fen Kung, Huei-Yu Tung, Tao-Hsin
spellingShingle	Fu Shaw, Ling Chang, Pao-Chu Lee, Jung-Fen Kung, Huei-Yu Tung, Tao-Hsin Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan
author_facet	Fu Shaw, Ling Chang, Pao-Chu Lee, Jung-Fen Kung, Huei-Yu Tung, Tao-Hsin
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title	Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan
title_short	Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan
title_full	Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan
title_fullStr	Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed	Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan
title_sort	incidence and predicted risk factors of pressure ulcers in surgical patients: experience at a medical center in taipei, taiwan
description	Purpose. To explore the context of incidence of and associated risk factors for pressure ulcers amongst the population of surgical patients. Methods. The initial study cohort was conducted with a total of 297 patients admitted to a teaching hospital for a surgical operation from November 14th to 27th 2006 in Taipei, Taiwan. The Braden scale, pressure ulcers record sheet, and perioperative patient outcomes free from signs and symptoms of injury related to positioning and related nursing interventions and activities were collected. Results. The incidence of immediate and thirty-minute-later pressure ulcers is 9.8% (29/297) and 5.1% (15/297), respectively. Using logistic regression model, the statistically significantly associated risk factors related to immediate and thirty-minute-later pressure ulcers include operation age, type of anesthesia, type of operation position, type of surgery, admission Braden score, and number of nursing intervention after adjustment for confounding factors. Conclusion. Admission Braden score and number of nursing intervention are well-established protected factors for the development of pressure ulcers. Our study shows that older operation age, type of anesthesia, type of operation position, and type of surgery are also associated with the development of pressure ulcers.
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate	2014
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4099038/
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Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan

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